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Grundig G6 Aviator AM/FM, aircraft band and Shortwave Radio, Black
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List Price: $120.00
Our Price: $100.00
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Manufacturer: Eton
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Grundig
Color: Black
EAN: 0750254803147
Feature: AM (520-1710 KHz), FM (87.5-108 MHz), Aircraft Band (117-137 MHz), LW (150 KHz - 510 KHz) and Shortwave (1711-30000 KHz)
Label: Eton
Manufacturer: Eton
Model: G6
Publisher: Eton
Studio: Eton
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Features
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AM (520-1710 KHz), FM (87.5-108 MHz), Aircraft Band (117-137 MHz), LW (150 KHz - 510 KHz) and Shortwave (1711-30000 KHz)
Set 9/10 KHz AM tuning; set FM tuning range
Single Side Band (SSB)
Dual conversion (1st IF - 55.845KHz, 2nd IF - 450KHz)
Digital tuning with digital frequency readout (LCD)
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Editorial Reviews:
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portable AM/FM/aircraft band/shortwave radio * numeric keypad for direct station entry * stores up to 700 stations with 4-character station naming * international digital clock with 3 programmable alarms * protective carrying pouch *
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great features for a sub $100.00 radio
Comment: I have been using the radio for several days and here are my obsverations.
I purchased the radio for the aircraft band as I live about 10 miles from DFW airport. I have been able to listen to the aircraft as well as the control towers. Some aircraft frequencies come in great, the towers less so. All are however listenable. There is some bleed over into the aircraft band as is to be expected but not so much as to make it annoying.
You can pick up all of the major shortwave stations with no problem. Normal AM and FM reception is fine.
I find the SSB reception to be poor at best. You can select SSB mode but not USB or LSB. Tuning is done through the use of the tuning knob. If you are looking for SSB reception, I would look for a different radio, perhaps the Eton E1 or a tabletop set, both of which will cost much more.
The sound is ok for a radio with such a small speaker. Do not expect room filling sound for such a small radio. I was surprised at how small the radio really is. This would make an excellent travel radio. There are a lot of memory presets that you can use. The stations remain set even after the batteries are removed. I removed the batteries for 6 to 10 hours and the presets remained. Most of my listening has been done using an external reel type antenna.
All in all, for the money this is a nice feature rich radio. I recomment using an external reel type antenna for best performance. It makes a big difference. The external reel antenna is not included but they can be found in many locations for less than $10.00.
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Summary: An unbeatable value
Comment: I've owned this radio since it was first introduced and I've owned maybe 30 or 40 portable shortwave radios over the past couple of decades. I find this little unit to be a great value BUT only if you're looking for the feature set offered. Obviously if you don't care about aviation traffic or SSB, you could do a lot better for the money. BUT in my experience there aren't any better value radios out there at this price point that do it all better.
The aviation band is just so-so in terms of sensitivity and overload protection from broadcast AM but I find the SSB remarkable. SSB signals are easily found with the fast dial speed and easily tuned in to "listenable" frequencies with the slow speed setting.
The shortwave broadcast band is very sensitive and fidelity with good headphones is quite good and the FM stereo audio is excellent again through earphones. The channel separation or selectivity could be better on the shortwave bands but it's not bad unless you have two very big guns right next to each other.
All in all if you're looking for nice small portable shortwave radio that can handily receive broadcast AM shortwave, SSB, AM/FM commercial broadcasts, the G6 can be a lot of fun at a very good price point
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Summary: Over Priced for Preformance
Comment: The Grundig G6 has a very nice feature set and is a very convenient size. The display is very informative and the radio is fairly easy to use, especially given all that it does. However, one buys a multiband radio like this to actually listen to it. Its performance overall is not in keeping with the $100 price point. Much better performing radio's are available at or below this price point.
My sample had significant overloading on the lower shortwave bands from local AM broadcast stations. Shortwave performance was ohterwise ok, but the unit was not as sensitive as other radios in this price range. Adding even a short external wire antenna of 15 feet only made the overloading worse. A major plus was it's SSB tuning performance ... far and away the best of the radios I've compared it to. AM BCB performance was ok but not as senitive as a Kaito 1102 or Degen 1103. FM performance was quite good. However the inter-station hiss was objectionable. As mentioned elsewhere, the AIR band is full of local FM broadcast stations bleeding through making it pretty much useless at my location.
So, this unit is pocket sized, is fun to use and has a ton of features but its overall performance will make it less pleasant to use ... especially if you happen to have other radios in this general price range to compare it to.
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Summary: Good Fun Radio, but you can find cheaper....
Comment: I ordered this radio looking for something that would have a little more sophistication than my Kaito KA11. I like this radio, but in my experience it received the same stations off the whip antenna that my KA11 (a radio that costs half as much) received with a piece of copper wire strung off its whip. With an external antenna, the G6 was overloaded, showing full signal on nearly every station and getting a lot of static, noise and bleeding of other bands.
The air band had the same AM bleed that other reviewers describe. When I did get airband, I thought that it was boring. Obviously that's not the radio's fault, but it ended up being a feature that I would never use. The radio also has SSB but I couldn't find anything over the entire band other than weird stretched am stations and static after a week's worth of trying. I may have been doing something wrong, but I read the instructions cover to cover and looked on the web, and other than scanning the air, what can you do?
I bought this radio for better SW reception and it has pretty good SW reception (gets the major broadcasts like BBC, Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Taiwan, CBC, UTC) without effort, just no better than the radio I already have.
If this is your first shortwave or want to give SW a try without hassling with external antennas, this would be a decent choice and you wouldn't be let down. However, Kaito's radios cost half as much, perform just as well, and include batteries and external antennas. They just have odd ergonomics and interfaces and hard to decipher instructions. I find those things a little charming. The only things that I prefer from this radio then my KA11 is the style and the jog wheel. FM and AM on this radio were very good, FM especially clear in Portland, OR.
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Summary: Small radio returned as defective
Comment: This small radio looked good, but soon began to turn itself off shortly after being started, and the volume failed to go beyond a very low level. These problems existed on both battery and AC power. After a phone call with the manufacturer, it is being returned this morning to Amazon as defective, and will be replaced, we hope with better luck.
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